ARCADIA, Calif. (KABC) -- With so many California residents working from home and their refrigerators stocked amid the coronavirus emergency, now is perhaps not an ideal time for a planned power outage.

That's the message that homeowners and officials in two local cities are sending to Southern California Edison.

On quiet Oakwood Street in Arcadia this week, residents were outraged when they saw orange traffic cones lining part of the roadway and Edison crews just around the corner.

Members of President Donald Trump's economic team convene Friday on Capitol Hill to launch negotiations with Senate Republicans and Democrats racing to draft a $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued a statewide stay-at-home order on Thursday.

"People have nowhere to go," Cuellar said. "There's elderly people, people that have finally stocked up the refrigerators.

"They could've been a little more considerate."

Upset residents called the city of Arcadia. Officials said they canceled the city permits.

"As a result, our engineer let the contractor know earlier today that we would not be issuing the permit for this work," said an email sent to residents on Thursday. "So, they are not permitted to do this project tomorrow."

Resident Hanna Kefalas said, "In the state of emergency that we're in, it would've been nice just be considerate of our feelings I guess."

The city of Monrovia had a similar issue.

"Many times, we had requested for planned outages to be postponed," the city manager, Dylan Feik, said in a statement. "On the day two outages were to happen and no postponement confirmation from Edison, I directed staff to revoke the encroachment permit and stop work."